Among the greatest criminal minds to attempt to bend time and space were the Lord of Time and Light, each of whom gathered vast forces from future eras to conquer the 20th century and other historical eras. As greedy geniuses these temporal tyrants tried various strategies to defeat their foes. The Time Lord persisted in his agenda against the Justice League as had Light versus the Justice Socialite known as Starman. Yet while it could be said that time was on their side, they failed to count the precious seconds between sweeping victory and bitter defeat, despite gains they each obtained time-to-time.
While the manner in which The Lord of Time obtained his time traveling technology was never revealed, except that he was from the year 3786* when presumably such equipment was readily available, he nevertheless showed adept skill at the intricacies in the flow of the fourth dimension. At a certain point, the warlord known as Epoch would even improve upon this science with his Eternity Brain, which was the mechanism through which he believed he would finally vanquish the Justice League who beat him twice before, although the League and Society actually saved him and reality from its evil program.
Some of Time Lord's tales would be mirrored on Earth-Two by Per Degaton, the cosmic twin of the Legion of Super-Heroes member known as Brainiac Five, another time traveler occasionally prone to periods of madness. However, the actual doppleganger to the Lord of Time was a different man who only bent the future to his will once... the Light!The Light was a brilliant scientist of the 20th century who had discovered shrinking technology and later engineered a massive submarine headquarters for his League of the Octopus. Each time, however, Starman stymied the Light's goals so that in his next power grab, the Light decided to "borrow" a fellow scientist's revolutary discovery.
As "the Unknown", the Light stole time traveling technology from Professor Junper Grimm. This time machine allowed the Light and his minions to travel through time 2000 years into the future wherein he obtained an electro-cannon and Futurites which were giants of that far flung future. Still, Starman bested the time lord once more.
* A future post will discuss the probable first appearance of the Lord of Time, versus the Flash, as well as a probable encounter the Light had with one of Starman’s Justice Society teammates in the future.
** The Xotar of Earth-Two was a benevolent researcher who remained in 11,960 rather than be tempted by the equivalent of ancient technology he discovered, which was life-like paint from prehistoric Atlantis. Instead, another time-traveling menace named Landor of the 25th century had a similar battle with the Justice Society as had Xotar with the Justice League.
*** Landor's counterpart on Earth-One was the good-natured yet greedyBooster Gold who likewise traveled from the 25th century in an attempt to exploit the 20th century with future gadgets.
**** Interestingly from a "Earth-Prime" publishing perspective, Xotar debuted in Brave and the Bold #29, while Landor appeared in All-Star Comics #29!
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